More Quotes by Washington Irving
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head
The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on.
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.
